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| | Leopold Kronecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Leopold Kronecker's parents were wealthy, his father, Isidor Kronecker, was a successful business man while his mother, Johanna Prausnitzer, also came from a wealthy family. |
 | | Kronecker's parents employed private tutors to teach him up to the stage when he entered the Gymnasium at Liegnitz, and this tutoring gave him a very sound foundation to his education. |
 | | Kronecker's primary contributions were in the theory of equations and higher algebra, with his major contributions in elliptic functions, the theory of algebraic equations, and the theory of algebraic numbers. |
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